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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:26435 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3658 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!wdl1!enterprise!pax!brunner From: brunner@pax.ssd.loral.com (Brian T. Brunner) Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? Message-ID: <1994Oct7.192523.13197@ssd.loral.com> Keywords: mosaic term telnet Sender: brunner@pax (Brian T. Brunner) Organization: Space Systems/Loral References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <371l6s$r63@masala.cc.uh.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 19:25:23 GMT Lines: 40 In article <371l6s$r63@masala.cc.uh.edu>, wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) writes: !! Xref: enterprise comp.os.linux.misc:26480 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2887 !! Path: !! enterprise!wdl1!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!usenet.ee.p pdx.edu!fastrac.llnl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston n.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin !! From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) !! Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc !! Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? !! Date: 6 Oct 1994 20:03:40 GMT !! Organization: University of Houston !! Lines: 17 !! Message-ID: <371l6s$r63@masala.cc.uh.edu> !! References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu> !! NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu !! Keywords: mosaic term telnet !! !! In article <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, !! Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: !! >In article <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>, Po-Han Lin <plin@girtab.usc.edu> !! wrote: !! >>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic. !! > !! >You were misinformed. Both Linux and the BSD's use monolithic kernels. !! >For a fun discussion of this, there is a series of articles were Linus !! >and Andy Tanenbaum 'discussed' the merits of both of these when Linux !! >was in it's infancy. !! !! BTW, I have a question. Compiling FreeBSD kernel in 386 is much faster !! than compiling Linux kernel in 486 with twice memory. !! I found that Linux compiles everything whatever options I choose. !! Am I doing something wrong, or is it the feature of Linux ? !! !! -- !! Woody Jin -- .sig under construction, please hold.